Comment Regardless, the name is still ironic (Score 1) 1352
Regardless of what the poll says, the name Fox News implies news coverage, which Fox News fails to do. That is why they should rename to GOP Opinions.
Comment Re:Fox News is "Smarter" than Slashdot (Score 1) 266
Maybe the people who write the articles are...
Unfortunately, not so much for the readers.
Unfortunately, not so much for the readers.
Submission + - Gmail creator: Chrome OS is as good as dead
An anonymous reader writes: Former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come right out and said what many people are thinking (or hoping for). On his FriendFeed page, Buchheit made a post titled "Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android)." In it, he bluntly says that Google's netbook-centric Chrome OS is as good as dead. "Yeah, I was thinking, 'is this too obvious to even state?', but then I see people taking ChromeOS seriously, and Google is even shipping devices for some reason," Buchheit writes. "Because ChromeOS has no purpose that isn't better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display)."
Comment Awesome! (Score 1) 114
I can't wait for the App!
Submission + - Apple's New Location Policy Sparks Privacy Fears
adeelarshad82 writes: A number of sites are worrying about an update to Apple's privacy policy, which now gives Apple the option to store your location. The concern seems a bit puzzling especially since users have been asked to provide location-based data to location-centric apps for years now. But Apple has apparently made this explicit in its privacy policy, leading to a small round of hand-wringing.
Submission + - Human bite force exceeds that of other primates (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Science reports: Using digital 3D skull models, researchers have found that human bite force is at least 42% higher than that of most other the primates. Out of all the modeled skulls, the human cranium also experienced the second least amount of stress during a chomp, suggesting that humans can produce greater mastication forces with less impact than most of the other species in this lineup. The results challenge earlier notions that our large brains came at the cost of a less powerful bite and increases the number of hard and tough foods that ancient man might have chowed down on.
Submission + - Louisiana Fed. Judge Blocks Drilling Moratorium (npr.org)
eldavojohn writes: In the ongoing BP debacle, the Obama administration thought the best action they could take would be a six month moratorium on offshore drilling and a halt to 33 exploratory wells going on in the Gulf of Mexico. Well, a federal judge (in New Orleans, no less) is unsatisfied with their reasons for this and stated, "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country." The state governor seems to agree on the grounds that any blocking of drilling will cost the state thousands of lucrative jobs.
Submission + - Biden to file sharers: 'Piracy is theft' (cnet.com)
suraj.sun writes: Do people commit theft when they share unauthorized copies of film and music over the Internet? U.S. Vice President Joe Biden thinks it is.
"We used to have a problem in this town saying this," Biden told reporters Thursday at a press conference in Washington D.C. "But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It's smash and grab. It ain't no different than smashing a window at Tiffany's and grabbing [merchandise]."
Biden spoke to the media alongside Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, to introduce the government's strategy on the protecting ( PDF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf ) the country's intellectual property.
Espinel issued a report that included more than 33 recommendations, such as cooperating with foreign governments to go after foreign-based pirate sites.
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20008432-261.html
"We used to have a problem in this town saying this," Biden told reporters Thursday at a press conference in Washington D.C. "But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It's smash and grab. It ain't no different than smashing a window at Tiffany's and grabbing [merchandise]."
Biden spoke to the media alongside Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, to introduce the government's strategy on the protecting ( PDF: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/intellectualproperty/intellectualproperty_strategic_plan.pdf ) the country's intellectual property.
Espinel issued a report that included more than 33 recommendations, such as cooperating with foreign governments to go after foreign-based pirate sites.
CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20008432-261.html
Submission + - IBM execs named in $100M racketeering suit (wral.com)
Third Position writes: A Pennsylvania-based information technology partner of IBM is suing the technology giant for some $100 million, alleging a Ponzi scheme and racketeering.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Pennsylvania on June 16, Devon IT accused IBM and several senior executives by name of misusing $12 million that Devon invested in two IBM projects.
“As part of their scheme, the RICO Defendants intentionally misrepresented the market potential of the products they touted and continued to demand funding from Devon – an admittedly smaller company with less resources than IBM – even after the RICO Defendants secretly canceled at least one of the subject development projects,” the company alleges in the suit.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Pennsylvania on June 16, Devon IT accused IBM and several senior executives by name of misusing $12 million that Devon invested in two IBM projects.
“As part of their scheme, the RICO Defendants intentionally misrepresented the market potential of the products they touted and continued to demand funding from Devon – an admittedly smaller company with less resources than IBM – even after the RICO Defendants secretly canceled at least one of the subject development projects,” the company alleges in the suit.
Submission + - Anti-frustration software for Windows (soluto.com)
alexo writes: Soluto, an Israeli start-up, aims to solve one of the problems that plagues all computer users: poor computer performance. As its first service, the company is offering a free (as in beer) program that analyzes the boot process and identifies applications and processes that may be removed or delayed to speed up Windows' start-up. To find the source of the slowdowns, Soluto uses a statistical approach, "The PC Genome", which they describe as "a huge knowledgebase of PC frustration data, built automatically through the usage of Soluto software. Its objective and statistical information, gathered and analyzed by Soluto, is also editable by the community."
See writeups by the New York Times, ZDNet and Geeks are sexy.
See writeups by the New York Times, ZDNet and Geeks are sexy.
Submission + - Does the world need another programming language? (oreilly.com) 1
blackbearnh writes: It seems like boutique languages have become all the style, and not a week doesn't go by that someone isn't promoting some new languages as the next great hope to save the industry. So you might be excused if you wrote off Go as just another new language. But Go has an impressive parentage, counting among it's creators Robert "Commander" Pike, one of the early Unix pioneers at Bell Labs who worked with greats such as Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson, and now works at Google. In an OSCON preview, Pike talks about Go at Google, and compares the work environment of Google and Bell Labs. According to Pike, Go is an attempt to produce a robust programming language that is easy to parse and compile, and produces small binaries. " A lot of the ideas and changes in hardware that have come about in the last couple of decades haven't had a chance to influence C++. So we sat down with a clean sheet of paper and tried to design a language that would solve the problems that we have: we need to build software quickly, have it run well on modern multi-core hardware and in a network environment, and be a pleasure to use."
Submission + - Should I be concerned my DNA is now in the wild? (23andme.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: I am "1 of the 96" affected by the mixing of DNA samples by 23andme. 23andme has pointed the finger at labcorp for the screwup. The question is, someone had access to my gene analysis (and I had access to another persons) so it is potentially released in the wild to live forever, should I have any concern, and will we start seeing more security lapses like this?
Submission + - OpenOffice.org Passes 150 Million Downloads (linuxpromagazine.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: OpenOffice.org surpassed its 150 millionth, 30 million of which came from version 3.2.0, released in February of this year.
Submission + - Consumer Watchdog says Google is a monopoly (thehill.com)
GovTechGuy writes: The non-profit Consumer Watchdog has sharpened its attack against Google, accusing the search giant of prominently featuring its own products in search results. The sudden ascent in popularity of services such as Google Maps following the debut of Google's "Universal Search" in 2007 has led to charges of monopolistic manipulation of the online market. Consumer Watchdog cites traffic data from over 100 popular websites as evidence that Google is unfairly targeting its own products in searches to the detriment of consumer choice.
Submission + - Water Main Break Floods Dallas Data Center (datacenterknowledge.com)
miller60 writes: IT systems in Dallas County were offline for three days last week after a water main break flooded the basement of the Dallas County Records Building, which houses the UPS systems and other electrical equipment supporting a data center in the building. The county does not have a backup data center, despite warnings that it faced the risk of service disruption without one.
